{"id":323,"date":"2008-03-16T19:21:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T09:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/16\/monster-archive-the-savage\/"},"modified":"2008-03-16T19:23:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T09:23:06","slug":"monster-archive-the-savage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/16\/monster-archive-the-savage\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Archive: The Savage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Savage<\/strong> (US-1926: dir. Fred Newmeyer)<\/p>\n<p>According to Stephen Jones in <em>The Illustrated Dinosaur Movie Guide<\/em>, this film features a young reporter named Danny Terry (played by Ben Lyon), who accompanies a scientific expedition to the Mariposa Islands, just as  Edward Malone follows Professor Challenge on an expedition to find <em>The Lost World<\/em> (1925). In <strong>The Savage<\/strong>, Professor Atwater (played by Tom Maquire) has a theory about evolution to prove and to do so he fakes a missing link (the &#8220;savage&#8221; of the title). However, a friendly brontosaurus follows Danny back to New York &#8212; just as a brontosaurus ends up in London in <em>The Lost World<\/em>. <strong>The Savage<\/strong> is a comedy and, I assume, a take-off of the earlier film.<\/p>\n<p>The girl in the first picture below (which comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clubdesmonstres.com\/thesavage.html\" target=\"_blank\">clubdesmonstres.com<\/a>) is, presumably, the Professor&#8217;s daughter, Ysabel, played by May McAvoy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/thesavage1926.jpg\" title=\"The Savage 1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/thesavage1926.jpg\" alt=\"The Savage 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/the-savage2.jpg\" title=\"The Savage 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/the-savage2.jpg\" alt=\"The Savage 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Savage (US-1926: dir. Fred Newmeyer) According to Stephen Jones in The Illustrated Dinosaur Movie Guide, this film features a young reporter named Danny Terry (played by Ben Lyon), who accompanies a scientific expedition to the Mariposa Islands, just as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/16\/monster-archive-the-savage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,4,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}